IBM to Lay Off 1,000 Workers
In Its Global Services Division

ARMONK, N.Y. -- International Business Machines Corp. confirmed it is laying off around 1,000 people in its Global Services group whose skills aren't needed any longer.

Jan Butler, a spokeswoman for global services said the group still expects to end the year with more employees than the 150,000 with which it started the year. She said IBM had hired 10,000 people for the unit as of the end of May and that hiring continues. Earlier this year IBM executives said they expected to add 20,000 jobs in the unit during the year.